Re: Ways to use DDNS with your own domain name (was Re: DynDNS no longer free.)

2014-04-11 Thread Richard Hector
On 11/04/14 04:34, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 2:19 AM, David Guntner wrote: >> > what you want to do is >> > create a CNAME record for the domain - set a CNAME of mydomain.org that >> > points to myhostname.someddns.com. >> > >> > Presto! Now when you try to access your home

Re: Ways to use DDNS with your own domain name (was Re: DynDNS no longer free.)

2014-04-11 Thread David Guntner
Nuno Magalhães grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 5:19 PM, David Guntner wrote: >> Presto! Now when you try to access your home machine, you can simply >> refer to mydomain.org and it will point you to the correct place. > > Er... mydomain.org, being a *.TLD, will most likel

Re: Ways to use DDNS with your own domain name (was Re: DynDNS no longer free.)

2014-04-11 Thread David Guntner
[Unless there's a reason to take a reply off-list, please keep it on list so that others can follow the discussion] Igor Cicimov grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > On 11/04/2014 2:52 AM, "David Guntner" wrote: >> >> Chris Angelico grabbed a keyboard and wrote: >>> CNAMEs are immensely helpful, but th

Re: Ways to use DDNS with your own domain name (was Re: DynDNS no longer free.)

2014-04-10 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 5:19 PM, David Guntner wrote: > Presto! Now when you try to access your home machine, you can simply > refer to mydomain.org and it will point you to the correct place. Er... mydomain.org, being a *.TLD, will most likely be a *paid* domain, hence defeating the purpose (OP

Re: Ways to use DDNS with your own domain name (was Re: DynDNS no longer free.)

2014-04-10 Thread David Guntner
Chris Angelico grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 2:19 AM, David Guntner wrote: >> what you want to do is >> create a CNAME record for the domain - set a CNAME of mydomain.org that >> points to myhostname.someddns.com. >> >> Presto! Now when you try to access your home machin

Re: Ways to use DDNS with your own domain name (was Re: DynDNS no longer free.)

2014-04-10 Thread Chris Angelico
On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 2:19 AM, David Guntner wrote: > what you want to do is > create a CNAME record for the domain - set a CNAME of mydomain.org that > points to myhostname.someddns.com. > > Presto! Now when you try to access your home machine, you can simply > refer to mydomain.org and it wil

Ways to use DDNS with your own domain name (was Re: DynDNS no longer free.)

2014-04-10 Thread David Guntner
Rick Macdonald grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > [...] > I only looked at a couple before deciding to use the free service from > ASUS that is included with the router, so I don't know which of the > above are actually free. The domain name is not pretty: > [yourhostname].asuscomm.com, but that doesn

Re: DynDNS no longer free.

2014-04-10 Thread Rick Macdonald
On 08/04/14 02:51 PM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: DynDNS just announced that their free hostname program in 30 days will no longer be gratis. I use that with ddclient to update the IP address for my blog. Are there other free alternatives? Some routers have built-in support for DDNS, so you don't e

Re: DynDNS no longer free.

2014-04-09 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Pascal Obry wrote: Le mardi 08 avril 2014 à 15:51 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom a écrit : DynDNS just announced that their free hostname program in 30 days will no longer be gratis. I use that with ddclient to update the IP address for my blog. Are there other free alternatives

Re: DynDNS no longer free.

2014-04-09 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 03:51:01PM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hi, > > DynDNS just announced that their free hostname program in 30 days > will no longer be gratis. > I use that with ddclient to update the IP address for my blog. > Are there other free alternatives? That's a shame. If you ha

Re: DynDNS no longer free.

2014-04-08 Thread Carl Johnson
Tom Furie writes: > On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 07:32:37PM -0400, Brad Alexander wrote: > >> I apologize. I should have vetted these before posting them. Best as I can >> tell, ez-ip, penguinpowered, and hn seem to be gone, dhs, ods, easydns are >> no longer free, tzo got acquired by dyndns (thus und

Re: DynDNS no longer free.

2014-04-08 Thread Steve Litt
On Wed, 9 Apr 2014 00:54:10 +0200 Jochen Spieker wrote: > Hugo Vanwoerkom: > > > > DynDNS just announced that their free hostname program in 30 days > > will no longer be gratis. > > I use that with ddclient to update the IP address for my blog. > > Are there other free alternatives? > > I use

Re: DynDNS no longer free.

2014-04-08 Thread Tom Furie
On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 07:32:37PM -0400, Brad Alexander wrote: > I apologize. I should have vetted these before posting them. Best as I can > tell, ez-ip, penguinpowered, and hn seem to be gone, dhs, ods, easydns are > no longer free, tzo got acquired by dyndns (thus under the 30 days left > clau

Re: DynDNS no longer free.

2014-04-08 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Pascal Obry wrote: Le mardi 08 avril 2014 à 15:51 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom a écrit : DynDNS just announced that their free hostname program in 30 days will no longer be gratis. I use that with ddclient to update the IP address for my blog. Are there other free alternatives? Sure: http://www.noi

Re: DynDNS no longer free.

2014-04-08 Thread Brad Alexander
On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 7:03 PM, Brad Alexander wrote: > > Over lo these many years, I have run ez-ipupdate on my perimeter to keep > my dynamic hostname in sync. So I pulled up the description, which says: > > " Currently supported are: ez-ip (http://www.EZ-IP.Net/), Penguinpowered > (http://www

Re: DynDNS no longer free.

2014-04-08 Thread Tom Furie
On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 07:03:26PM -0400, Brad Alexander wrote: > Over lo these many years, I have run ez-ipupdate on my perimeter to keep my > dynamic hostname in sync. So I pulled up the description, which says: > > " Currently supported are: ez-ip (http://www.EZ-IP.Net/), Penguinpowered > (ht

Re: DynDNS no longer free.

2014-04-08 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Pascal Obry wrote: Le mardi 08 avril 2014 à 15:51 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom a écrit : DynDNS just announced that their free hostname program in 30 days will no longer be gratis. I use that with ddclient to update the IP address for my blog. Are there other free alternatives? Sure: http://www.noi

Re: DynDNS no longer free.

2014-04-08 Thread Brad Alexander
s On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 5:38 PM, Tom Furie wrote: > On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 03:51:01PM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > > DynDNS just announced that their free hostname program in 30 days > > will no longer be gratis. > > I use that with ddclient to update the IP address for my blog. > > Are

Re: DynDNS no longer free.

2014-04-08 Thread Jochen Spieker
Hugo Vanwoerkom: > > DynDNS just announced that their free hostname program in 30 days > will no longer be gratis. > I use that with ddclient to update the IP address for my blog. > Are there other free alternatives? I use with inadyn. J. -- The news at ten makes me

Re: DynDNS no longer free.

2014-04-08 Thread Tom Furie
On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 03:51:01PM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > DynDNS just announced that their free hostname program in 30 days > will no longer be gratis. > I use that with ddclient to update the IP address for my blog. > Are there other free alternatives? This news disappointed me too, giv

Re: DynDNS no longer free.

2014-04-08 Thread Pascal Obry
Le mardi 08 avril 2014 à 15:51 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom a écrit : > DynDNS just announced that their free hostname program in 30 days will > no longer be gratis. > I use that with ddclient to update the IP address for my blog. > Are there other free alternatives? Sure: http://www.noip.com and http